This page lists all known shorter works (poems, short stories, and miscellaneous pieces) that L.M. Montgomery published in 1895. All items appeared under the signature “L.M. Montgomery,” unless stated otherwise.
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Overview
In 1895, L.M. Montgomery published two poems (“On the Gulf Shore” and “When the Apple-Blossoms Blow”) and her first short story (“A Baking of Gingersnaps”), all of them using the alternate signatures Maud Eglington [sic] and Maud Cavendish. All three items appeared in The Ladies’ Journal, a Toronto magazine. Unfortunately, a full run of this magazine has not yet been located, so the bibliographical details cannot yet be verified.
On the Gulf Shore (poem)
By Maud Eglington [sic]. [The Ladies’ Journal (Toronto), February 1895, 2.] Scrapbook 7 (“Written April 1893 / Published February 1895 / In ‘Ladies’ Journal’”).
First line: “Lap softly on the curving shore.”
Collected
The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery, selected by John Ferns and Kevin McCabe (Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1987), 61–62.
Notes
In her scrapbook, Montgomery strikes out in ink the second “g” in “Eglington,” indicating that her intended pseudonym was “Maud Eglinton.”
When the Apple-Blossoms Blow (poem)
By Maud Cavendish. [The Ladies’ Journal (Toronto), June 1895]. Scrapbook 7 (“Written January 1895 / Published ? 1895 / In ‘Ladies’ Journal’”).
First line: “When the wheat on the hillsides is growing green.”
Reprinted
The American Messenger (New York), May 1910, 83 (as “When the Apple Blossoms Blow,” signed L.M. Montgomery).
A Baking of Gingersnaps (story)
By Maud Cavendish. [The Ladies’ Journal (Toronto), July 1895]. Scrapbook 7 (“Written February 1895 / Published July 1895 / In ‘Ladies’ Journal’”).
Reprinted
The American Farmer (Baltimore), September 1895, 7.
Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati), 5 October 1910, 17–18 (signed L.M. Montgomery).
Collected
Around the Hearth: Tales of Home and Family, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Joanne Lebold (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2022), 9–21.
Cite This Page
“Shorter Works: 1895.” L.M. Montgomery Online, https://lmmonline.org/shorter-works/shorter-works-1895/.